Turkish Folk Music Club

Yesterday I went to the Turkish Folk Music Club meeting on campus. It's a student club, but a couple of my ELC colleagues participate, too. It just lasts an hour on Tuesday evenings, and there are loose plans to give a concert in December. Most of the student participants come to sing (as I did), and the other adults play instruments, although this time there were just three saz players.

A saz, in case you were wondering...

A lot of the meeting was spent discussing which songs to practice this term. Of course, I had nothing to add to this conversation since it was all in Turkish, but it was good listening practice! They did have sheet music for the song we practiced and the lyrics were written out syllable by syllable, which was very helpful. Here's a version of the song we started: Bayram Gelip Elime Elimize

I have a lot of practicing to do so that I don't stumble so much over the words. Unfortunately for me, our pace is a little faster than the video version!